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Anomaly Detected by Satellite West of Point Loma, San Diego, CA

37 NM West of Point Loma, San Diego, CA | 2022-Sep-19

Initial Notification: On September 19, 2002, the USCG Sector San Diego contacted their NOAA SSC to request a trajectory estimate for the NESDIS Marine Pollution Surveillance Report (MPSR) issued at 2340 hrs UTC, 37 NM (87 KM) west of Point Loma. USCG requested overflight search areas for near sunset today and sunrise tomorrow.

Incident Details
Primary threat:Oil
Products of concern:Oil
Latitude (approximate): 32° 43.83′ North
Longitude (approximate): 117° 59.25′ West